Carrier deal signed

[forthbridge]

From Auntie:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7486683.stm

Will there be airworthy Harriers left by the time they are built??

[DaveB]

Doesn't really matter Jim as they're designed to carry the JSF

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[forthbridge]

Are the beeb wrong again saying they will carry Harriers until JSF is ready?

[Trev Clark]

Despite it being about 5 (for that read 8 ) years before they enter service, it seems the JSF's will not be ready!

I have said it before, when (often British) aircraft were designed with pencil, paper and a slide rule, they were built, test flown, entered service, found to be not as good as was hoped, so become obsolete and then scrapped in the time it take a modern aircraft to leave the computer screen! :brick: :brick: :brick:

I know this will upset some ex-naval members here, but if these things ever get into the water, I will eat my sombrero!!!

[Hot_Charlie]

Doesn't really matter Jim as they're designed to carry the JSF

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Can't help thinking they'd have been better waiting to see a "real" F-35 delivery (to anyone) before signing the deal.

Hey-ho. It'll keep the Navy happy. The fact we have concrete (and tarmac) bases in both our current main theatres is neither here nor there I suppose.

[SkippyBing]

The fact we have concrete (and tarmac) bases in both our current main theatres is neither here nor there I suppose.

Only if you're planning on only playing there for the next fifty odd years. Still think they should be built with cats and traps though to mitigate against problems with the F-35, oh and get a decent AWACS, tanker, Electronic Warfare.....

[forthbridge]

Dunno what the plans are for the Rosyth work, but it will be interesting to see whetever emerges getting squeezed under the bridges :o

IIRC about 150ft is the clearance.. Not sure what height the current carriers are, but they can't be too far off that, so goodness knows what height the new ones will be....

[Trev Clark]

On the lunchtime news I saw the defence secretary doing PR at the shipyard at Govern on the Clyde where a lot of work is going to happen for these carriers........it was no suprise to me that he was a Scot On the flipside the ship will be part built and based in Portsmouth, I wonder how that slipped through the current cabinet who 'lean toward the tartan a wee bit'!

[Garry Russell]

The Government do seem to be trying to tartan up their image North of the border

Garry

[jonesey2k]

Navalised Typhoon ftw

I'm still in intrigued by the decision to go non-nuclear. It seems to me a bit odd as the only people we look even remotely like fighting in the future are also giving us oil...